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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/http.server.rst4
-rw-r--r--Lib/http/server.py33
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_httpservers.py44
-rw-r--r--Misc/ACKS1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS5
5 files changed, 73 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
index e4b985a..8f2ba89 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
@@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ of which this module provides three different variants:
a complete set of headers, as the response body. The :attr:`responses`
attribute holds the default values for *message* and *explain* that
will be used if no value is provided; for unknown codes the default value
- for both is the string ``???``.
+ for both is the string ``???``. The body will be empty if the method is
+ HEAD or the response code is one of the following: ``1xx``,
+ ``204 No Content``, ``205 Reset Content``, ``304 Not Modified``.
.. versionchanged:: 3.4
The error response includes a Content-Length header.
diff --git a/Lib/http/server.py b/Lib/http/server.py
index bd94eaa..e12e45b 100644
--- a/Lib/http/server.py
+++ b/Lib/http/server.py
@@ -446,23 +446,30 @@ class BaseHTTPRequestHandler(socketserver.StreamRequestHandler):
if explain is None:
explain = longmsg
self.log_error("code %d, message %s", code, message)
- # HTML encode to prevent Cross Site Scripting attacks (see bug #1100201)
- content = (self.error_message_format % {
- 'code': code,
- 'message': html.escape(message, quote=False),
- 'explain': html.escape(explain, quote=False)
- })
- body = content.encode('UTF-8', 'replace')
self.send_response(code, message)
- self.send_header("Content-Type", self.error_content_type)
self.send_header('Connection', 'close')
- self.send_header('Content-Length', int(len(body)))
+
+ # Message body is omitted for cases described in:
+ # - RFC7230: 3.3. 1xx, 204(No Content), 304(Not Modified)
+ # - RFC7231: 6.3.6. 205(Reset Content)
+ body = None
+ if (code >= 200 and
+ code not in (HTTPStatus.NO_CONTENT,
+ HTTPStatus.RESET_CONTENT,
+ HTTPStatus.NOT_MODIFIED)):
+ # HTML encode to prevent Cross Site Scripting attacks
+ # (see bug #1100201)
+ content = (self.error_message_format % {
+ 'code': code,
+ 'message': html.escape(message, quote=False),
+ 'explain': html.escape(explain, quote=False)
+ })
+ body = content.encode('UTF-8', 'replace')
+ self.send_header("Content-Type", self.error_content_type)
+ self.send_header('Content-Length', int(len(body)))
self.end_headers()
- if (self.command != 'HEAD' and
- code >= 200 and
- code not in (
- HTTPStatus.NO_CONTENT, HTTPStatus.NOT_MODIFIED)):
+ if self.command != 'HEAD' and body:
self.wfile.write(body)
def send_response(self, code, message=None):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index 9b96a29..7f4b0f9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ class BaseHTTPServerTestCase(BaseTestCase):
body = self.headers['x-special-incoming'].encode('utf-8')
self.wfile.write(body)
+ def do_SEND_ERROR(self):
+ self.send_error(int(self.path[1:]))
+
+ def do_HEAD(self):
+ self.send_error(int(self.path[1:]))
+
def setUp(self):
BaseTestCase.setUp(self)
self.con = http.client.HTTPConnection(self.HOST, self.PORT)
@@ -237,6 +243,44 @@ class BaseHTTPServerTestCase(BaseTestCase):
data = res.read()
self.assertEqual(int(res.getheader('Content-Length')), len(data))
+ def test_send_error(self):
+ allow_transfer_encoding_codes = (HTTPStatus.NOT_MODIFIED,
+ HTTPStatus.RESET_CONTENT)
+ for code in (HTTPStatus.NO_CONTENT, HTTPStatus.NOT_MODIFIED,
+ HTTPStatus.PROCESSING, HTTPStatus.RESET_CONTENT,
+ HTTPStatus.SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS):
+ self.con.request('SEND_ERROR', '/{}'.format(code))
+ res = self.con.getresponse()
+ self.assertEqual(code, res.status)
+ self.assertEqual(None, res.getheader('Content-Length'))
+ self.assertEqual(None, res.getheader('Content-Type'))
+ if code not in allow_transfer_encoding_codes:
+ self.assertEqual(None, res.getheader('Transfer-Encoding'))
+
+ data = res.read()
+ self.assertEqual(b'', data)
+
+ def test_head_via_send_error(self):
+ allow_transfer_encoding_codes = (HTTPStatus.NOT_MODIFIED,
+ HTTPStatus.RESET_CONTENT)
+ for code in (HTTPStatus.OK, HTTPStatus.NO_CONTENT,
+ HTTPStatus.NOT_MODIFIED, HTTPStatus.RESET_CONTENT,
+ HTTPStatus.SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS):
+ self.con.request('HEAD', '/{}'.format(code))
+ res = self.con.getresponse()
+ self.assertEqual(code, res.status)
+ if code == HTTPStatus.OK:
+ self.assertTrue(int(res.getheader('Content-Length')) > 0)
+ self.assertIn('text/html', res.getheader('Content-Type'))
+ else:
+ self.assertEqual(None, res.getheader('Content-Length'))
+ self.assertEqual(None, res.getheader('Content-Type'))
+ if code not in allow_transfer_encoding_codes:
+ self.assertEqual(None, res.getheader('Transfer-Encoding'))
+
+ data = res.read()
+ self.assertEqual(b'', data)
+
class RequestHandlerLoggingTestCase(BaseTestCase):
class request_handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index c596e31..44cbd4c 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -787,6 +787,7 @@ Arkady Koplyarov
Peter A. Koren
Марк Коренберг
Vlad Korolev
+Susumu Koshiba
Joseph Koshy
Daniel Kozan
Jerzy Kozera
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 93bad2a..b311207 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #25738: Stop http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error() from
+ sending a message body for 205 Reset Content. Also, don't send Content
+ header fields in responses that don't have a body. Patch by Susumu
+ Koshiba.
+
- Issue #21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version
contains truncated build information.